issues regarding the argarian reform and land reform in the philippines?

Answer 1

According to the conventional definition, redistributive land reform is a public policy that transfers property rights over large private landholdings to small farmers and landless farm workers

It becomes problematic when the use of the same lens is stretched as far as to exam- ine ‘public’lands that are, in fact, under varying degrees of cultivation, imbued with private interests and marked by production and distribution relationships between the landed and the landless and land-poor, between the elite and non-elite, often not captured by official census. The failure to recognize the potentially and actually contested nature of much of ‘public lands’ risks removing them from the reach of redistributive reform, and so risks the continuation of many of the economic, social and political problems associated with an agrarian structure that is dominated by the landed classes as well.

Answer 2

Agricultural lands were changed to commercial and residential lands depriving the tenants the right to avail of the reform program. Likewise, some lands were converted to plantations not covered by the reform program. Thus, the land reform was not effectively implemented in some areas.